Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-09 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm frederik@... writes: The contributor terms create a situation where OSMF can actually make a reliable statement expressing the community interpretation of certain points of the license, Thinking about it, I am not sure this is the case. If the OSMF has an agreement with mappers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Announcement: Add-tags a tool to connect OpenStreetMap Wikipedia

2011-04-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kolossos wrote: there is a new tool to bring more Wikipedia-Tags inside OSM-database and connect so both projects more and more. It can be found here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/RemoteControl/Add-tags It's the idea to use later this connections to highlight the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Announcement: Add-tags a tool to connect OpenStreetMap Wikipedia

2011-04-09 Thread Kolossos
Hey, I'm sure that Interwikilinks in Wikipedia don't have a critical level of creativity so that they are trivial enough for us (case b). If not, wikipedia self couldn't use bots to copy this interwikilinks from one wiki to another. The pure wikipedia-tag is only a reference like a hyperlink so

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 20:38, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that this is the (only) critical issue. To be open contributions need to be given freely and without restriction, so as to avoid the current